The leaked emails from the University of East
Anglia seem to have put the proverbial cat in with the climatic
pigeons. So what to make of it? Firstly, there’s an awful lot of
information to wade through, some of which I find extremely confusing
eg, Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of our Generation
by Prof. Christopher Booker. What is he saying? That the data has been
fixed to prove that the planet is heating up? And if so, does the ‘fix’
mean that the planet isn’t heating up after all? And what of the agenda
of the individuals who hacked the emails, are they only concerned with
the truth? And what is the ‘truth’?
As far as I can ascertain the debate comes down to the finding that
the planet’s temperature appears to have dropped by an average of 1C
over the past ten years. What isn’t clear is whether this is a ‘blip’
in the graph of steadily rising temperatures or as some analysts claim,
a natural process connected to changes in the Sun’s activity?
What is sinister about the leaks is their timing, only weeks before
the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen, a meeting whose agenda has already
been fixed by the corporate elite and of course in their favour,
especially the crucial issue of Carbon Trading or Cap and Trade as it’s
being called. And mighty convenient the leaks are as they dovetail
perfectly into the Carbon Trading scam.

“The
Copenhagen Summit not only serves powerful corporate interests, which
have a stake in the global multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme,
it also serves to divert public attention from the devastation
resulting from the “real crisis” underlying the process of economic
globalization and a profit driven war without borders, which the
Pentagon calls “the long war”.” — ‘Global Warming: Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy’ By Michel Chossudovsky

It seems to me that there are two quite distinct but connected issues involved in the climate change debate:
1. Is the planet heating up because of human activity and even if it
isn’t does this mean that it’s okay to keep chowing the planet?
2. Regardless, from a socialist perspective the disastrous impact of
industrial capitalism on the great majority of the planet’s people is
plain for all to see. Thus the leaks serve a very definite purpose, to
divert attention away from the issue of capitalism’s plunder of the
planet’s resources.
What doesn’t seem to be questioned by the climate skeptics is the
rise in sea temperatures and the rising sea levels. Are these also
‘natural’? And what of the extremes of weather the world is
experiencing, even if as one scientist says, the drop in world
temperature is natural? But this only since 1999 and the one thing we
do know about the world’s weather is that it’s incredibly complex and
trends can only be measured relatively accurately over decades if not
centuries and definitely not over a ten-year period (this is
the same argument climate skeptics have used, namely that short-term
observations are meaningless).
What is incredible is that some on the left, after years of accusing
the developed nations of denying climate change, are now saying that
Climate Change was a corporate plot all along! Come on guys, get it
together!

“The
current global warming propaganda scare is being hyped by politicians
and special interests such as Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street
financial firms that stand to reap billions trading new carbon credit
financial futures. They are making an all-out effort to scare the world
into a deal at the December Copenhagen Global Warming summit, the
successor to the Kyoto agreement on CO2 emission reduction. It’s been
estimated that the Global Warming bill supported by Barack Obama and
his Wall Street patrons, passed by the House of Representatives but not
by the more conservative US Senate, would cost US taxpayers some $10
trillion.” – ‘Global Warming or Global Freezing: is the ice really melting?’ by F. William Engdahl

Of one thing we can be sure, the leaked emails have sown confusion
the world over and succeeded in diverting attention away from the real
culprit: capitalism.
Global Research have created an archive of articles on Climate Change
some which I have provided links to below, an invaluable resource for
anyone who has the time to wade through one hundred essays.